Elijah List sends out heretical Latter Rain teachings all over the world
daily in their newsletters. So it is no surprise to see Francis Frangipane,
a long time Latter Rain false teacher, featured in their newsletter.
The Latter Rain teaches that there is a transferable impartation of the
"anointing" that can be transferred "by" the laying on of hands "by" the
will of man, usually though slain in the spirit. As I have written
before, this is heresy. This teaching denies the Triune nature of God,
that He is One sovereign God eternally existing in three persons, Father,
Son and Holy Spirit. When you claim you can transfer an impartation
or anointing of the Holy Spirit by human hands by the will of men, you
effectively deny both the Deity and personality of the Holy Spirit.
You deny the Deity by claiming you have the power to transfer the Holy
Spirit at will, and you deny the person of the Holy Spirit by treating
Him like some kind of "force" or "power" separate from His person.
These ideas are New Age ideas wrapped up in a Christian wrapper.
Slain in the spirit and the transferable anointing are nowhere taught or
demonstrated by the Apostles, prophets or Jesus Christ Himself.

Frangipane uses another tired argument to try to prove the Latter Rain
transferable anointing that has cropped up from time to time. But
it has no basis in fact. Following is the salient portion of his
article:

There is a story in the Old Testament that captures well
my concern with the effects of a passive spirit. Elisha the prophet was
about to die and Joash king of Israel came and, in an unusual show of affection,
wept over the man of God. Adding to the intrigue, the king then spoke the
very words Elisha uttered to Elijah in the last hours of Elijah's life:
"My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" (2 Ki
13:14).

It is possible that the king sought some special power or gift-anointing
from the prophet before he died. Elisha, in fact, accommodates the king,
yet he tests him, ordering the king to take a bow and arrows. He then
told Joash, "Put your hand on the bow." Elisha then laid his hands on top
of the king's hands. He said, "Open the window toward the east," and Joash
opened it. Then Elisha said, "Shoot!" And he shot. Elisha then proclaimed:
"The Lord's arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Aram; for
you will defeat the Arameans at Aphek until you have destroyed them"

(2 Ki 13:15-17).

God was going to honor the efforts of Joash. The king had recognized
the Lord's anointing on His servant. He had come to receive, by impartation,
the prophet's blessing as it pertained to the need in his life. Elisha
actually "laid his hands on the king's hands" (vs 16). Yet, one more
test was required. Elisha said, "Take the arrows," and he took them. And
he said to the king of Israel, "Strike the ground," and he struck it three
times and stopped. So the man of God was angry with him and said, "You
should have stuck five or six times, then you would have struck Aram until
you would have destroyed it. But now you shall strike Aram only three times"
(2 Ki 13:18-19).

Elisha was angered by the passive spirit in King Joash. The prophet
knew Joash did not possess the perseverance to pursue his enemies until
he fully conquered them. Joash could possibly have been a great king. Yet
Elisha's anger burned at the king's passive approach to God's promises
- ultimately, many Israelites would die in the future raids of the Arameans
because Joash would only defeat them three times. (Breaking
the Bondage of a Passive Spirit by Francis Frangipane, The Elijah
List e-Newsletter, 6/29/04)

Now it is true that God wants us to have an active faith, to put our faith
into deeds. This illustration from the life of Jehoash (Joash in
the KJV, Jehoash of Jehoahaz in the NIV to distinguish him from Joash of
Ahaziah) teaches that concept as well as other lessons, but if you want
to learn more about putting your faith to work, read James. Yet the
idea of an "impartation" of "special power" of the Holy Spirit in
the story of Jehoash has no merit whatsoever, and is present in this article
strictly as a heretical device to get people softened up to Latter Rain
false teaching and practice. Let's step through this issue, shall
we?

(1) The Scripture is silent on any transferable impartation in the
story of Elisha and Jehoash.

2 Kings 13:14-19 Now Elisha was suffering from the illness
from which he died. Jehoash king of Israel went down to see him and wept
over him. "My father! My father!" he cried. "The chariots and horsemen
of Israel!" Elisha said, "Get a bow and some arrows," and he did so. "Take
the bow in your hands," he said to the king of Israel. When he had taken
it, Elisha put his hands on the king’s hands. "Open the east window," he
said, and he opened it. "Shoot!" Elisha said, and he shot. "The LORD’s
arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram!" Elisha declared. "You
will completely destroy the Arameans at Aphek." Then he said, "Take the
arrows," and the king took them. Elisha told him, "Strike the ground."
He struck it three times and stopped. The man of God was angry with him
and said, "You should have struck the ground five or six times; then you
would have defeated Aram and completely destroyed it. But now you will
defeat it only three times."

There is no mention of Jehoash seeking "some special power or gift-anointing
from the prophet before he died". He simply went up to visit Elisha
before he died, selfishly lamenting that there would be no more prophet
like Elisha in Israel during his rule. He used the same words Elisha
said to Elijah, as he went up to heaven, which very probably Jehoash knew
about. The Targum is, “my master, my master, who was better to Israel
by his prayers than chariots and horsemen.” Matthew Henry comments:

This king was herein selfish; he lamented the loss of Elisha
because he was as the chariot and horsemen of Israel, and therefore could
be ill spared when Israel was so poor in chariots and horsemen, as we find
they were (#2Ki 13:7), when they had in all but fifty horsemen and ten
chariots. Those who consider how much good men contribute to the defence
of a nation, and the keeping off of God’s judgments, will see cause to
lament the removal of them.

So this had nothing to do with wanting a power transfer, but Jehoash wanting
Elisha not to die and leave Israel without a major prophet and God's protection.

(2) The Spirit is not transferred "by" human hands and will, but
sovereignly by Jesus Christ (John 15:26).

Please note that all the passages in Acts and elsewhere, used wrongly
by Latter Rainers to try to prove a transferable impartation of the Holy
Spirit, use the words "through" and "at" the laying on of hands, not "by"
them.

2 Timothy 1:6 For this reason I remind you to fan
into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying
on of my hands.1 Timothy 4:14 Do not neglect your gift, which was given
you through a prophetic message when the body of elders laid
their hands on you.Acts 8:18-19 When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at
the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money and said,
"Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may
receive the Holy Spirit."

There are other instances, but there is no indication that a power transfer
took place "by" the laying on of hands or the will of the Apostles.

Acts 19:6 When Paul placed his hands on them,
the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.

The only conclusion possible from all the biblical passages is that this
is not some kind of magic that can be learned and bought for a price, as
in the story of Simon the Sorcerer (Acts 8:18-19) and in the way Latter
Rain, Third Wave false teachers teach it and promote it. True believers
wait upon the Lord (Ps. 27:14; 38;15, 1 Cor. 1:7). When hands are
laid on for the purpose of sending Christians out for service (1 Tim. 4:14)
or praying for healing (James 5;14) and the Holy Spirit chooses to fill
a person or heal them, He does so sovereignly, not "by" the laying on of
hands or "by" the will of men. None of the Apostles or prophets did
this the way it is taught and demonstrated by Latter Rain heretics.

(3) The Bible expressly forbids any transfer of the Anointing.

Ex. 30:29-33 You shall consecrate them so they will
be most holy, and whatever touches them will be holy. "Anoint Aaron and
his sons and consecrate them so they may serve me as priests. Say to the
Israelites, ‘This is to be my sacred anointing oil for the generations
to come. Do not pour it on men’s bodies and do not make any oil
with the same formula. It is sacred, and you are to consider it sacred.
Whoever
makes perfume like it and whoever puts it on anyone other than a priest
must be cut off from his people.’"

God is the One Who gives the Anointing (2 Cor. 1:21-22). There is
only one Anointing (1 John 2:20), that is the Anointing of the Anointed
One (Ps. 2:2, Acts 4:2), Jesus Christ, King of Kings. When a person
is born again, they are anointed by the Holy Spirit (2 Cor. 1:21-22, Eph.
1:13), foreknown, predestined, called, justified, glorified (Rom. 8:29-30).
No one can or should try to transfer the Holy Spirit to another person
as the Anointing is the person of the Holy Spirit (Luke 4:18, Titus 3:5).
This picture of holy anointing oil in the Old Testament is a foreshadowing
of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on everyone who believes and is born
again. I bet most Christians today, who have been partially or fully
brainwashed by Third Wavers, don't know that the "transferable impartation"
made popular by movements like the Toronto "Blessing", Brownsville "Outpouring"
and false prophets like Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Francis Frangipane
and thousands of others, is forbidden by Scripture. This fact alone,
among many others, completely demolishes the entire basis for the "slain
in the spirit" false anointing. Read my booklet called "What
Should I Say" for more information on the false arguments and teachings
of the Latter Rain.

(4) If Jehoash had received a Holy Spirit impartation, wouldn't he
have made the right choice?

This seems fairly obvious. If Jehoash had received the impartation Frangipane
claims he sought when Elisha touched him, he would have received the Holy
Spirit. The Spirit is called "the Spirit of truth" (John 14:17, 15:25,
16:13, 1 John 4:6). If the Spirit of truth was residing in Jehoash
then he would have realized what he should do with the arrows. But
he did not. There was no impartation at all, simply a choice afforded
by God to see how bold Jehoash was, to test his faith. It was strictly
Jehoash's choice, his test, and he, at least in part, failed the test.
Elisha, full of the Holy Spirit, knew the truth about the arrows.
Jehoash clearly did not, therefore there was no transfer of the Holy Spirit
to Jehoash.

Conclusion

This is just another in a long line of examples of the inability of
false teachers like Francis Frangipane to correctly exegete the Scripture.
Why? Because he and his Latter Rain counterparts are false teachers
and continue to try to promote a false anointing. They do not understand
the Scripture and they remain driven to advocate things "beyond what is
written" (1 Cor. 4:6). Jude makes the definative statement about
these wolves:

Jude 1:19 These are the men who divide you, who follow
mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.